A trailer for comedy Middle Men with its recent contemporary costume design. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 6 Jun ’13 20 Jun ’13 15 Apr ’13

A rundown of why Hollywood Costume at the V&A is the best event you will see all year. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 19 Jun ’10 27 Feb ’10 1 Feb ’13

Deborah Nadoolman Landis discusses her Hollywood Costume exhibition at the V&A. Not the only book you should buy about costume design, but probably the best. Two trends in women’s fashion for 2011 are prints and turbans, empathised in the film Coming to America.

Judianna Makovsky demonstrates that contemporary fashion with a plot is far more fun than a flick through Vogue. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 2 Oct ’15 2 Mar ’10 2 Mar ’13

Second and final part of our retrospective of The Grifters with insight from Mark Bridges. First in our two part retrospective of neo-noir classic The Grifters with exclusive insight from the film’s assistant costume designer Mark Bridges. Some essential style lessons learnt from Hot Tub Time Machine. Surely worth a look for eighties fans, the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine recently hit the net. Laughing along with 2012 would have been easier were it an hour shorter and cut every single line of sentimental mush.

Her Costume designer Casey Storm on creating a “warm and cosy and soothing” future. David Chronenberg: Evolution For WORN, Haley Mlotek examines the costumes on display at the Chronenberg exhibition, most of which are by the director’s sister, Denise. Unfortunately ‘Evolution’ closes on 19th January. Oscar Nominations Nathalie Atkinson on why the Best Costume Design category has basically become ‘Best Taffeta in a Leading Role’. Nailed it. And HERE she casts an eye over the equally baffling CDGA’s. African Dandies The new Guinness ad draws attention to some colourfully dressed gentlemen we really should be seeing a lot more of by now. Carol Ramsey Costume designer of Horrible Bosses and…

A brief glimpse at the costume world Mark Bridges created for Joker. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on The Costuming of Joaquin Phoenix in Joker 19 Jul ’16 14 Aug ’10 5 Sep ’11

The Phantom of the opera demonstrates that the colour, size and shape of a character’s costumes can communicate on a subliminal level.

MILD SPOILERS Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was actually shot in Brighton in 2015. Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in a one hour plus shoot-out inside a disused factory, from a sartorial point of view things get rather grubby. The film’s BAFTA nominated costume designer Emma Fryer has already worked with Wheatley on The ABCs of Death (2012) and A Field in England (2013) so is used to the way his stories tend to go bananas in the final reel. Free Fire unfolds practically in real time, which amps up the tension but allows for no mistake with costume.…

As a new feature for Clothes on Film, we will uploading regular videos (say every couple of weeks) to YouTube examining the costume design of new and classic movies, plus selected television and trailers. This is mainly because Clothes on Film’s creator and editor Christopher Laverty (waves) has been busy on other projects (ahem, buy the book) and has not had the opportunity to update the site as much as he’d like. Returning to more regular posting, it felt like a change was needed as there are already over 400 articles currently on here. Hence the idea of video. There will be some written articles added, but for the most……